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A fan of singer/songwriter Steph Fraser shot us a note about her new mobile website. I didn’t know who Steph Fraser was, but here’s a good little summary I found of her work.
Within the last 12 months Steph had signed a management deal, secured a recording contract and played in front of 20,000 people while supporting Mcfly, Natalie Imbruglia and Natasha Bedingfield before embarking on a journey to Canada having been asked to showcase at the prestigious Canadian Music Week festival in Toronto, March 2008.
She is often compared to Eva Cassidy but also writes her own material. She plays acoustic gutar and has a voice and style that often generate a moving response from her audiences.
She recorded her EP at Catherine North Studios in Hamilton, Ontario. The producer ‘Dan Achen’ had just recorded Dallas Green’s new City & Colour album and brought out breathtaking versions of Weight of Water and Purple Sun.
You can find out more about Steph Fraser on MySpace, Facebook, and last.fm.
Mobile Website:
www.strummerlive.net/stephmobile
June 30th, 2008
In case you have not checked lately, there are a host of mobile sites and services that are making everyday life easier for thousands of people just like us. To highlight just a sample, I compiled the following list of 71 things you can do from your mobile phone.
I wanted to make this interactive, so I temporarily left the links off of a few items. Why? So that we can learn from you and everyone else out there. If you have recommendations for what mobile sites or tools to use to accomplish any of the items below, leave a comment to this post and share your knowledge. After February 9, ten of the highest quality commenters will be sent a free MobileMammoth t-shirt, AND I will add the links to the remaining items in the list.
Happy mobile browsing…
71 Ways to Make the Mobile Web Work For You
- Use text messaging to solve a crime
- Confirm flight departure time en route to airport (mobile site)
- Play Brady Bunch Kung Fu!. (Sprint users only)
- Browse Flickr photos (mobile site)
- Call your spouse from your bank to confer on a new account (wait - you can’t do that at First National Bank in Chicago).
- Get a text alert when your Google stock reaches
$500 $600 a share
- Get an alert if your kid wanders off-campus
- Transfer money between your bank accounts
- Play music stored on your PC
- Listen to “The One Minute Manager” on audio book
- Prevent drunk driving (and drunk phone calls too)
- Get Radiated? (We hope not!)
- Use your phone as a modem for your laptop (great when you’re stuck in a hotel)
- Check the weather (mobile site)
- Cheat at chess (wait — don’t do that!)
- Go moblogging
- Get more done
- Watch a BoSox-Yankees game
- Play a Texas Hold ‘em tournament
- Pay your parking meter
- Watch a new music video
- Upload pictures & video to the Web in seconds
- Take Spanish lessons
- Over your messaging limits on your wireless plan? Send text messages, for free
- Better yet, send a comic message!
- Send map and directions directly to your cell phone
- Make your own mobile website
- Check your email
- Check your favorite blogs via Bloglines or Google Reader (both are mobile sites)
- Send a text message to your sister in Tokyo
- Send a video message to your spouse
- Play Madden NFL 08 on your cell phone
- Instant-Message your Mom on Mother’s Day
- Avoid the 5 car pile-up on your way home (best traffic site anyone?)
- Track your UPS package
- Check the TV listings
- Receive SPIN magazine on your mobile phone
- Locate your buddy
- Do a Yahoo image search
- Watch last night’s episode of Lost
- Listen to your favorite podcast
- Research a client on your way to a meeting
- Listen to NPR live (mSpot Radio)
- Watch highlights from the Olympics
- Do a Google search for your favorite mobile websites
- Watch a BareNakedLadies concert
- Listen to your local radio station
- Backup your Motorola phone directory
- Watch your favorite movie
- Phone stolen? Next time, Lock it
- Find a wifi hotspot
- Laptop crashed during a presentation? Run a slidehow from your mobile phone.
- Get injury alerts and win your fantasy league
- Find out your favorite PGA player’s tee time on your way to the Masters
- Try your hand at the NYTimes crossword puzzle
- Get NHL scoring updates by text message
- Get stock quotes on demand
- Get live score updates by selecting a sport here, then putting that RSS URL into FEED2MOBILE
- Update your fantasy line-up while shopping with your girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse
- Get tonight’s TV lineup
- Get your Maxim mobile fix (flash required)
- Get your soap opera fix
- Play ESPN Poker
- Play a scenario game
- Get your CEOExpress to go
- Make your own wallpaper for your mobile phone
- Text message your questions at 30,000 feet
- Get alerted when your child’s school closes early for snow (or any other reason)
- View a Google Map
- Access your GMail account
- Call your mom (Remember voice calls?!)
I hope you are able to find at least a few gems here that make your life a little easier. I worked on this list for a while, so hopefully all the links are still active!
As always, get your daily mobile website right here.
January 24th, 2008
AT&T and Samsung joined forces to provide a Napster enabled mobile phone just in time for the holidays.
Dubbed the SLM, the phone will let users search from Napster’s music library of 5 million+ songs, and download the songs directly to the mobile phone. Single songs can be purchased for $1.99 each using the service, or 5 tracks per month are available at $7.49 per month.
There is much more to these phones that just the Napster service, including mobile banking, XM Radio Mobile, and bluetooth capability, more. Read the story here.
November 21st, 2007
Disney’s High School Musical movies have done rather well, and now there’s a mobile website to showcase the latest one.
The site for High School Musical 2 let’s you meet the cast, watch video clips, vote in their latest poll, or get text messages from your favorite character from the movie. Personally, I don’t know Troy from Gabriella, but I hear they are some talented kids.
If you’re a fan of the movies, check it out and let us know what you think!
Mobile Website:
http://hsm2.mobi
September 21st, 2007
Spin Magazine offers two ways to stay on top of the modern music scene from your mobile phone.
For news updates via text message, simply text “SPIN” to 68423. They promise one message per day, Monday through Friday, covering the latest news in modern music.
The mSPIN service is a mobile website which lets the user check out album reviews, music news, interviews, and other music related goodies. At the time of this post, they’ve got an article on Rilo Kiley, and an interview with Thurston Moore. Rock on!
September 19th, 2007
